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Primary researchers
Patricia Tevington, Research Associate
Gregory A. Smith, Senior Associate Director, Religion Research
Research team
Alan Cooperman, Director, Religion Research
Becka A. Alper, Senior Researcher
Besheer Mohamed, Senior Researcher
Chip Rotolo, Research Associate
Justin Nortey, Research Analyst
Asta Kallo, Research Assistant
Methods team
Ashley Amaya, Associate Director, Survey Methods
Andrew Mercer, Senior Research Methodologist
Courtney Kennedy, Vice President, Methods and Innovation
Dorene Asare-Marfo, Panel Manager
Dana Popky, Associate Panel Manager
Anna Brown, Research Methodologist
Arnold Lau, Research Methodologist
Editorial and graphic design
Jeff Diamant, Senior Writer/Editor
Rebecca Leppert, Copy Editor
Bill Webster, Senior Information Graphics Designer
Communications and web publishing
Justine Coleman, Associate Digital Producer
Hannah Taber, Communications Manager
Maya Pottiger, Communications Associate
Others at Pew Research Center who contributed to this report include Neha Sahgal, Vice President of Research, and Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Race and Ethnicity Research.
In addition, Pew Research Center is grateful to expert advisers who provided valuable input on the questionnaire for this project: Tricia Bruce, Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies; Maureen Day, Research Affiliate at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California; Michele Dillon, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire; David Gibson, Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University; Mark Gray, Director of CARA Catholic Polls (CCP) at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate; Hosffman Ospino, Professor of Hispanic Ministry and Religious Education at Boston College; Tia Noelle Pratt, Assistant Vice President for Mission Engagement and Strategic Initiatives at Villanova University; and Stephen P. White, Executive Director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and Fellow in the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
